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Daniel Kimmage

@dkimmage.bsky.social
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Fascinated by technology (use and misuse), influence, AI, social media, propaganda, geopolitical competition. Former State Department. Pianist, climber, language buff.

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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 18h
The Global Engagement Center was started by a bi-partisan act of Congress to investigate and fight foreign disinformation and propaganda. It engaged with foreign mis-and-disinformation, not domestic voices. Its destruction is damaging to American interests, as this powerful piece shows.
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We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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Daniel Kimmage @dkimmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest on the strange prospect of cyborg politics now that agentic swarms are increasingly out and about. badinfluences.substack.com/p/cyborg-pol...
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Cyborg Politics
Unpredictable Encounters between Capable Machines and Fallible Humans
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Daniel Kimmage @dkimmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congress should investigate the purge that shut down my former office at the State Department, which fought information manipulation by Russia, China, and terrorist organizations. thehill.com/opinion/nati...
thehill.com
We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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Daniel Kimmage @dkimmage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hats off to @noupside.bsky.social and @dwj.eurosky.social for this detailed dissection of the "censorship industrial complex" hoax. doi.org/10.1111/puar...
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<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how a propaganda frame alleging the existence of a “Censorship Industrial Complex” was institutionalized and then helped justify the dismantling of US election information resilie...
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Daniel Kimmage @dkimmage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Agentic propaganda swarms spotted in the wild. (Check out research by @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social, who saw this coming before anyone else.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
nytimes.com
Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Recently, our team at "Question Everything" came across a strange local news outlet in Florida. It was called the South Florida Standard.
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Daniel Kimmage @dkimmage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Brave new world alert... futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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